Build. Another wheeled vehicle. 2Rh/2Y/1B/1Gd8/2W.The Questions:Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away? Yes. (+5)Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio? Below. (+5) (The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away? Yes. (+5)Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts? No. (-5)Score: +10 (A-). Not the greatest of sets but it has some interesting parts.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Parts. A wide range of pieces but not a high quantity of any one single part. Plenty of Slopes and Plates, some Clip Plates, a couple of Bar Plates, some Robot Arms, a few Tiles, Minifig Handcuffs, a Minifig Radio, and a couple of other pieces.

Build. A quick IO Frigate.

The Questions:Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away? Yes. (+5)Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio? Below. (+5) (The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away? Yes. (+5)Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts? No. (-5)Score: +10 (A-). It just needed four more pieces to get the max score.

The Questions:Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away? Yes. (+5)Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio? At. (0) (The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away? Yes. (+5)Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts? Yes. (+5)Score: +15 (A). While there are some interesting parts in this set, I don't think it's a good starting point for Frames.

Events of Turn 1 (DDC@11): Since I was forced to act first by virtue of being last, I made a push for A Team's unguarded Station. My Red frame hit A Team's Yellow frame for 3 damage. Her Lime frame hits my Brown frame for 1. Occam's Spork's Shoot & Scoot frame hits my Blue frame for 1, his Recon by Fire frame hits it for 3.

Events of Turn 3 (DDC@7): Occam's Spork's Melee Sprinter frame hits A Team's Purple frame for 1. He also seizes her other Station. In my push to grab Stations I left one of mine unguarded. A Team seizes it.

Events of Turn 5 (DDC@1): Occam's Spork's Melee Sprinter moves off A Team's Station to engage my Pink frame. It does no damage and I leap over it to seize the now unguarded Station. Occam's Spork's Shoot & Scoot frame destroys my Purple frame allowing him to take my Station. He then moves it out to engage A Team's Orange frame which then leapfrogs over the Shoot & Scoot frame, shoots it for 3 damage, and seizes the Station. My Brown frame hits A Team's Lime frame for 1 in a last ditch attempt to lower her score. The Doomsday Clock ticks down to zero.

End of Turn 5 pictures.

Occam's Spork: 36 points.

A Team: 28 points.Me: 15 points.

Thought & Observations:

We had a new Archetype debut in this game, the Melee Sprinter.

I took a few aftermath pictures but they were crappy so I deleted them.

I didn't play as well as I could have. I split my attention on two fronts and that hampered me.

Monday, June 13, 2016

Taking a break from the Series 7 Mixels for the moment let's take a look at a recent polybag.

Bag. I paid $3.99 for this at Toys'R'Us, for a $0.16 Price per Piece.

Instructions.

Minifig.

Parts. There's a couple of the Mod. Plate w/Arm Up, a Cone, a 1x2 Cheese Slope, some Technic bits, Wheels and Rims, and then there's the Motorcycle Frame and Cover.

Build. Nothing.

The Questions:Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away? No. (-5)Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio? Above. (-10) (The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away? Yes. (+5)Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts? No. (-5)Score: -15 (C). Honestly, I bought this set just for the Captain America minifig.

Wheels of Plastic by Cole Blaq. This looks fantastic but wouldn't stand up to table use. It also looks like it would absorb more than five hits and be way too dense as terrain. It has some interesting techniques though.

Friday, June 3, 2016

Parts. Quite the smorgasbord. Plenty of Ball Joints, some Round Plates, some Clip Plates, some Slopes, a couple of Brackets, a couple of 1x2 Mod. Bricks w/ Studs on Both Sides, a few printed Tiles, a 4x4 Dish, and a couple of other parts.

Build. A Frame (2Rh/1B/1Y/1Gd8/2W).

The Questions:Can you build something -- a frame, station, or starship -- right away? Yes. (+5)Is it below, at, or above the golden ratio? Below. (+5) (The Golden Ratio is $0.10 per part.)If you can't build a frame right away, or choose not to, does it have parts you should be able to put into use right away? Yes. (+5)Does it have more than a handful of immediately useful parts? Yes. (+5)Score: +20 (A+). This set makes me want to build more Yellow and Purple frames.